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vately sent a chosen band of men, about the eleventh hour ol the night, to a place called in the Italian tongue, Concordia,* to deftroy the ftore-houses of the people, and the im- plements for war.

2. Yet notwithflanding it was the night sea- son, when the soldiers set out, and the go- vernor kept a ftrid watch, yet the people of the province had notice thereof,

3. And there aflembled together of people of the province, three score and ten persons, and the foldiers of the king of Britain, were eight hundred valiant men.

4. And when the soldiers saw that the peo- ple of the province were colltcled together, they fliouted with a great fhout, and as they ihouted they fliut at the people of the pro- vince, and it was said that some of the peo- ple were llain.

5. And it came to pass, that Jo/j^i^j cap-

f Major Butler.
 * Concord.